Centurions help Carlton crush Grange
Stevie Gilmour played down one of the best knocks of his career at the weekend and diverted the praise towards Carlton stalwart Cedric English.The pair figured in a remarkable double-century unbeaten partnership to seal a nine-wicket victory over capital rivals Grange at Raeburn Place.It was a result that propelled Gilmour and Co to the head of the Premiership title race – and he branded it very special on two counts.He explained: “For a start, beating Grange always adds something. We know their guys well and we are great mates, but on the field the rivalry is red hot.”Also, achieving a performance like that without Scotland squad guys Fraser Watts, Gordon Drummond and Preston Mommsen was amazing.”From a personal point of view, Gilmour could not disguise his joy after his 108, saying: “It was my first ton for several seasons and there is no doubt that Cedric was a big help.”He is such a calming influence out in the middle and his talents just rub off on you. It was his fourth century in his last six SNCL knocks, which is a wonderful sequence. I really think he is the best batsman in the country – amateur or professional.”English struck 119 as Carlton cruised to the target of 262.Giles Holmes had top scored for Grange with 68, while Ally Evans was the most effective visiting bowler with three for 47.Adam-Lockhart Krause was another centurion as Heriot’s outgunned Aberdeenshire at Goldenacre.Former Scots seamer Craig Mackellar – who snapped up three crucial Dons wickets – reckons Heriot’s can, like Carlton, mount a strong challenge for the crown.He said: “If we keep up the momentum and steer clear of injuries then we can be right up there.”I am delighted I made the move to the club. they are a great bunch of lads with terrific spirit. “Adam’s hundred was great to watch, though he had a scare when he was dropped on 47. He let rip with his second 50, which just took us out of reach.”Mackellar rocked Shire by removing Ian Brand and Gerry Strydom (a sizzling gully catch by Sean Weeraratna) with successive balls.Lockhart-Krause (117 from 137 deliveries) was well supported by Peter Ross (62), while Tyler Buchan was the pick of the Shire attack with three for 47.Set 259 for victory, the Dons suffered a big setback when veteran Neil MacRae was trapped lbw to the first delivery of Andre van Niekerk’s spell.Heriot’s seemed to be destined for a clear-cut success, but a last wicket Aberdeenshire stand of 57 made it a dramatic finale and they went down by only six runs.Chris West was the mainstay of the latter part of their innings, with 32.Arbroath veteran Ben McGill insisted there will be no panic after their surprise home defeat by basement boys West of Scotland.Paceman McGill – back in action after abandoning plans to retire from first-team cricket – reckons the result will help to concentrate the minds of the squad’s youngsters over the rest of the campaign.Arbroath appeared to be in the box seat as they dismissed the visitors for 158, but the worsening weather did not work in their favour and they were teetering on 76 for eight when the tussle was decided.McGill said: “We really did well to bowl them out for that total, even though wasn’t our best fielding performance of all time.”We then struggled with the bat, but in fairness their pro Colin de Grandhomme and Dave McNulty bowled well first up, taking the game away from us.”They definitely deserved their victory and it was a bit of a wake-up call.”We know we have a talented young team, but was also knew when the season started that we would take a few beatings at this level.”We are still confidence that we will prove ourselves to be good enough to survive and compete in this division.”The cricket we produced to beat Uddingston and Aberdeenshire was first rate, and we are looking on the West game as a minor glitch.”And hopefully we will have our pro for next weekend’s trip to Greenock – along with vice-captain Calvin Burnett, who has been on Scotland duty.De Grandhomme (36) and old stager Dougie Lockhart (32) were the mainstays of the West innings, while Craig Ramsay and Greg Peal shared seven wickets. Dunfermline’s shaky run continued as they plunged to a six-wicket reverse at the hands of Watsonians in Edinburgh. The host batsmen made a mockery of the amended target of 176 from 44 overs, clinching the glory in the 32nd.Stuart Chalmers was in great nick with 63 not out, finishing the job in the company of skipper Craig Wright (33 not out). Tim Weston had provided the early momentum with 47.Half centuries from George Ninan, John Fletcher and Michael Leask enabled Stoneywood-Dyce to brush aside the challenge of Clydesdale by seven wickets.Zulfi Shaheed (60) had propelled Dale to 220 for nine before the Aberdonians completed the job in the 46th over.The rest of the programme was washed out.
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TV Ratings for Major Sporting Events Over-index In More Affluent U.S. Homes
January 24, 2011
From the new Orleans Saints’ inspiring Super Bowl victory and the Winter Olympics to LeBron James’ controversial “Decision” to take his talents to Miami, 2010 was a record-breaking year for sports viewership in the U.S.
But ratings tell only part of the story about the appeal of sports to advertisers. Nielsen’s Year in Sports 2010 reveals that households earning more than $100,000 are more likely to watch major sporting events like the Super Bowl, World Series or World Cup.
The report also provides detail and insight on online buzz, advertising effectiveness, and the power of sports figures to endorse brands.Download Nielsen’s State of the Media: Year in Sports 2010.
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'2012' Sucks Worse Than the Mayans Could Have Predicted
2012 is like watching a Special Olympics weightlifting event. the young man grunting and flexing under the lights is showing off. his feats of strength are impressive. there is awe in the eyes of those who witness his skills, his talents. But in the end, regardless of how cut he is, how much he can bench and how awesome it is to see him do it, you’re just watching a powerfully strong person with below average intelligence pick up heavy things and drop them. and that’s all you’re doing.
Hitchcock would be proud.
That’s not to say there can’t be any enjoyment in that, and not just of the mean-spirited variety, either. Word is that this movie cost about 250-million dollars. there are maybe two or three moments total where it doesn’t look like it. and if you’re coming solely to watch a moron hoist the left coast and smash it down into the ocean, you’re going to leave pleased. But there is a story here, and it takes up a significant amount of the nearly three-hour runtime and, unfortunately, that same moron is in charge of that, too. To wit:
John Cusack is Jackson Curtis, a barely-published author estranged from his wife (Amanda Peet) who lives with his children (both annoying moppets) and their prospective stepdad (Tom McCarty). Cusack is taking his annoying kids on a lame camping trip, where they happen upon the Army monitoring the crust of the Earth thanks to Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) an earnest, naive scientist who has discovered that the sun is jizzing neutrinos into the core of the Eart. this of course, will cause the core to overheat, giving the Earth really bad skin, like geological psoriasis crossed with volcanic pizzaface. Just like the Mayans always said it would happen.
After the Army releases him and his kids, Cusack bumps into Woody Harrelson, looking like a homeless wood nymph and living in an RV, subsisting off Pabst and pickles. That sentence, by the way, accurately describes probably the most three-dimensional character in the entire movie. Anyway, Harrelson has been keeping tabs on the government’s secret plan to build humanity saving superboats called “Arks,” because the government has really shitty writers and planners. Cusack sponges a couple PBR’s off Harrelson, writes him off as a crazy wood nymph with shitty taste in beer and drives his kids home just in time for LA to fall into the ocean as bill Hicks smiles and lights another Marlboro 100 in Hell.
From this point forward, Cusack outraces an earthquake, drives through a collapsing building, jumps a limo AND an RV over giant cracks on the ground, outruns the ash cloud from the eruption of Yellowstone National Park on foot, drives a Bentley out of a crashing airliner onto a glacier and manages to hold his breath for roughly eight minutes underwater. Because he’s been cast to be “cool” and appeal to “the kids,” he does it all with the same bored, lazy, uninspired look on his face, even when he’s screaming for his life.
Bull. Shit.
The characters aren’t even characters, they’re single personality traits dressed up in human suits. When it’s most convenient, they transform into convenient stepping stones for the plot. Like when Peet’s plastic surgeon boyfriend happens to know how to fly a plane. or when Cusack, mankind’s least published author, also happens to also be the human being best equipped to navigate raining automobiles, failing skyscrapers and, most impressively, Los Angeles traffic in a fucking limo.
Everyone else in the movie can be summed up entirely by two-word descriptions. Danny Glover is: BLACK PRESIDENT. George Segal is: OLD DAD. Oliver Platt is: ASSHOLE BUREAUCRAT. Beatrice Rosen is: HOT WHORE. one of Cusack’s kids still wets herself at age seven, an endearing character quirk until we realize that it’s her defining characteristic. In fact, as the camera pulls back through the clouds to bring us the end credits, we get: “No more pull-ups!” she proudly tells a smiling Cusack. I forgot this was a plot point until she capped off the survival of humanity by reminding us of mankind’s real victory: bladder control. and you’re going to need a mastery of that skill if you hope to make it through all two-hours and 40-minutes of 2012
Kind of a big deal.
Emmerich doesn’t try to avoid the classic disaster movie cliches. Nor does he try to put a creative spin on them. he simply grabs every single one of those cliches, and I mean every single disaster movie cliche you’ve ever seen, from Irwin Allen to his own Independence Day, and he wallows in them shamelessly. I don’t mean that in the haughty literary way. I mean to use the word in the way mangy dogs understand it as they flop on their back–feet in the air, tongues lolling–and wallow in the freshly flattened carcass of some large rodent that found itself under a semi’s wheels. That is how Emmerich wallows in 2012, twisting his hips, eyes glassy and wild, red rocket gleaming in the beautiful, pointlessly destructive asshole we know as the sun.
For more from Fatboy, check out his review of The Invention of Lying and The 5 most Unintentionally Racist Movies About Racism.
'2012' Sucks Worse Than the Mayans Could Have Predicted
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'2012' Sucks Worse Than the Mayans Could Have Predicted
2012 is like watching a Special Olympics weightlifting event. The young man grunting and flexing under the lights is showing off. his feats of strength are impressive. There is awe in the eyes of those who witness his skills, his talents. But in the end, regardless of how cut he is, how much he can bench and how awesome it is to see him do it, you’re just watching a powerfully strong person with below average intelligence pick up heavy things and drop them. and that’s all you’re doing.
Hitchcock would be proud.
That’s not to say there can’t be any enjoyment in that, and not just of the mean-spirited variety, either. Word is that this movie cost about 250-million dollars. There are maybe two or three moments total where it doesn’t look like it. and if you’re coming solely to watch a moron hoist the left coast and smash it down into the ocean, you’re going to leave pleased. But there is a story here, and it takes up a significant amount of the nearly three-hour runtime and, unfortunately, that same moron is in charge of that, too. to wit:
John Cusack is Jackson Curtis, a barely-published author estranged from his wife (Amanda Peet) who lives with his children (both annoying moppets) and their prospective stepdad (Tom McCarty). Cusack is taking his annoying kids on a lame camping trip, where they happen upon the Army monitoring the crust of the Earth thanks to Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) an earnest, naive scientist who has discovered that the sun is jizzing neutrinos into the core of the Eart. This of course, will cause the core to overheat, giving the Earth really bad skin, like geological psoriasis crossed with volcanic pizzaface. Just like the Mayans always said it would happen.
After the Army releases him and his kids, Cusack bumps into Woody Harrelson, looking like a homeless wood nymph and living in an RV, subsisting off Pabst and pickles. that sentence, by the way, accurately describes probably the most three-dimensional character in the entire movie. anyway, Harrelson has been keeping tabs on the government’s secret plan to build humanity saving superboats called “Arks,” because the government has really shitty writers and planners. Cusack sponges a couple PBR’s off Harrelson, writes him off as a crazy wood nymph with shitty taste in beer and drives his kids home just in time for LA to fall into the ocean as bill Hicks smiles and lights another Marlboro 100 in Hell.
From this point forward, Cusack outraces an earthquake, drives through a collapsing building, jumps a limo AND an RV over giant cracks on the ground, outruns the ash cloud from the eruption of Yellowstone National Park on foot, drives a Bentley out of a crashing airliner onto a glacier and manages to hold his breath for roughly eight minutes underwater. Because he’s been cast to be “cool” and appeal to “the kids,” he does it all with the same bored, lazy, uninspired look on his face, even when he’s screaming for his life.
Bull. Shit.
The characters aren’t even characters, they’re single personality traits dressed up in human suits. when it’s most convenient, they transform into convenient stepping stones for the plot. Like when Peet’s plastic surgeon boyfriend happens to know how to fly a plane. Or when Cusack, mankind’s least published author, also happens to also be the human being best equipped to navigate raining automobiles, failing skyscrapers and, most impressively, Los Angeles traffic in a fucking limo.
Everyone else in the movie can be summed up entirely by two-word descriptions. Danny Glover is: BLACK PRESIDENT. George Segal is: OLD DAD. Oliver Platt is: ASSHOLE BUREAUCRAT. Beatrice Rosen is: HOT WHORE. One of Cusack’s kids still wets herself at age seven, an endearing character quirk until we realize that it’s her defining characteristic. in fact, as the camera pulls back through the clouds to bring us the end credits, we get: “No more pull-ups!” she proudly tells a smiling Cusack. I forgot this was a plot point until she capped off the survival of humanity by reminding us of mankind’s real victory: bladder control. and you’re going to need a mastery of that skill if you hope to make it through all two-hours and 40-minutes of 2012
Kind of a big deal.
Emmerich doesn’t try to avoid the classic disaster movie cliches. nor does he try to put a creative spin on them. He simply grabs every single one of those cliches, and I mean every single disaster movie cliche you’ve ever seen, from Irwin Allen to his own Independence Day, and he wallows in them shamelessly. I don’t mean that in the haughty literary way. I mean to use the word in the way mangy dogs understand it as they flop on their back–feet in the air, tongues lolling–and wallow in the freshly flattened carcass of some large rodent that found itself under a semi’s wheels. that is how Emmerich wallows in 2012, twisting his hips, eyes glassy and wild, red rocket gleaming in the beautiful, pointlessly destructive asshole we know as the sun.
For more from Fatboy, check out his review of The Invention of Lying and The 5 most Unintentionally Racist Movies About Racism.
'2012' Sucks Worse Than the Mayans Could Have Predicted
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